Representative Chris Van Hollen

(D- Maryland)

Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means as well as the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.  He is the vice chairman of the bipartisan Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, co-chairman of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force and vice chairman of the Democratic Task Force on Budget and Tax Policy.

Representative Shelley Capito

(R-West Virginia)

Serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.  She is on the steering committee of the Rural Health Care Caucus  and co-chair of the Long Term Care Caucus.  She is also a member of the Congressional Steel Caucus and the Sportsman’s Caucus

Bonner Cohen, Ph.D.

Senior Fellow for the National Center for Public Policy Research and Senior Policy Analyst for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow

Over the past fifteen years Mr. Cohen has written extensively on environmental issues and authored The Green Wave: Environmentalism and Its Consequences. 

David Sloane

Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Advocacy for AARP

Mr. Sloane is responsible for federal and state government relations, grassroots, e-advocacy and voter education programs. He served as Special Assistant for Legislative Affairs to President George H. W. Bush, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Governmental Affairs for Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole.

George Cahlink

Founding editor for Roll Call’s legislative news wire service CongressNow

George Cahlink has covered Congress and the Pentagon for the past decade, as a correspondent for Congressional Quarterly, Defense Daily, Government Executive, Federal Times and Inside the Army. He has served as an embedded journalist with military forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. He also has been a freelance contributor to National Journal, Air Force magazine and Foreign Service Journal.

• Public policy organizations on the left -- Center for American Progress and the right – The American Enterprise Institute

• The Brookings Institution’s take on paths to economic recovery

• Top 10 Global Economic Challenges Facing the New Administration (Brookings):

• Keep an eye on Congress (CongressNow)

• Learn more about the approaches both sides of the aisle are taking:
• Senate Democratic Policy Committee
• Senate Republican Policy Committee

• Transition Site of President-Elect Obama

• Obama elected on an Economic Mandate (AARP Bulletin Today)

• Stay informed on how the economy affects you (AARP Bulletin Today)

• Peter G. Peterson Foundation

• The Economic Crisis of 2008 (Wikipedia)

• Follow world business and current affairs at The Economist

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